Kingdom Hearts: Who Is The Nameless Star?

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• Who Is The Nameless Star?

• What Did Nameless Star Whisper To Sora?

• The Nameless Star’s Connection To Quadratum

Kingdom Hearts 3 introduces some important characters and plot threads in both its base and secret ending. One such character, Nameless Star, who Sora meets in the Final World, is somewhat of an enigma.

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Very little is known about Nameless Star due to her being, well, nameless and without a body, but there is some information to parse together that hints at her identity and her importance in the overarching story going forward. Let's deep dive into her appearances in Kingdom Hearts 3 and Melody of Memory to find out more about this mysterious character.

Who Is The Nameless Star?

After Sora and his friends fall to darkness in the Keyblade Graveyard, Sora finds himself in The Final World. There, he meets Chirithy, who tells him that, when someone dies, their hearts sometimes persist and arrive in the Final World.

“Usually, only a heart can reach the Final World.”

As Sora’s heart and body reached the Final World, he was able to search for the ‘pieces’ of his body to return to normal. While doing so, he meets Nameless Star.

Sora asks Nameless Star whose heart she is, and she replies, “No one’s anymore. They took away my name — everything about me.”

Sora is in disbelief that anyone could have taken her heart, but Nameless Star believes it was taken “Only because it pines for another.”

She believes the person her heart pines for will be able to find her if she remains in the Final World.

Sora offers to tell the person that Nameless Star is waiting if she tells him his name, so she whispers his name in Sora’s ear. We don’t hear what she says, however.

What Did Nameless Star Whisper To Sora?

Kingdom Hearts 3 ReMind’s secret ending reveals the name that Nameless Star whispered to Sora. When speaking to Yozora, Sora recalls the name that Nameless Star said to him in the Final World — the name of the person who is looking for her and who she pines for.

“But wait, that girl, she told me about you.”

While no more about Nameless Star is revealed, Yozora says, that this “isn't what [he] really looks like” and asks Sora, “Why are you using Sora’s name?”

As Yozora is looking for Nameless Star, it’s possible that her name is also Sora. However, considering “everything” about her was stolen, and, seemingly, Yozora’s body was also stolen, there’s more afoot here regarding these two and what happened to them.

Nameless Star is linked to Yozora, and Sora is linked to both Nameless Star and Yozora, but it’s unclear what that connection means right now.

The Nameless Star’s Connection To Quadratum

At the end of Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory, Kairi’s memories of Xehanort help to discover the existence of a world “somewhere on the other side,” a place that is key to Sora’s whereabouts after his disappearance.

To get there, the Fairy Godmother takes Kairi and Riku to the Final World to meet Nameless Star. When Riku asks who she is, the Fairy Godmother says that she is the “final key” to finding Sora.

Kairi’s memories and Riku’s dreams are the first two keys.

The Fairy Godmother explains that Nameless Star’s “form was taken from her” and that “her heart would certainly be stolen” if she returned to her world.

Nameless Star seems surprised that the Fairy Godmother knows so much about her, but it seems that she knows this because Nameless Star dreams of returning to her world and reuniting with Yozora, and, as she said herself, the Fairy Godmother is an expert when it comes to dreams.

Riku describes the city he saw in his dreams, where they believe Sora may be, and Nameless Star confirms that this place is called Quadratum.

As Nameless Star “came from the world on the other side”, according to the Fairy Godmother, she is able to open a path to allow Riku to use the power of waking and create a portal, which leads him to Quadratum.

There are no more scenes with Nameless Star, so all we know about her is:

• Her body and “everything” about her was stolen because she “pines for another” (Yozora).
• She’s waiting for Yozora to rescue her from the Final World.
• There is a link between Nameless Star and Sora, as Yozora believes ‘Sora’ to be her name and that Sora has stolen it.
• She belongs to the world of Quadratum, meaning she will most likely return in Kingdom Hearts 4.

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